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Explores a significant cross-section of South Asian fiction in English written on the theme of Partition from the mid-1950's to the late 1980's
India --History --Partition, 1947. --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- South Asian fiction (English) --History and criticism. --- South Asian fiction (English) --- Partition, Territorial, in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- History and criticism. --- South Asian literature (English) --- India --- History
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Indic literature (English) --- Railroads --- Modernism (Aesthetics) --- Railroads in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- Popular culture --- Mass media --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects
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Partition occurring simultaneously with British decolonization of the Indian subcontinent led to the formation of independent India and Pakistan. While the political and communal aspects of the Partition have received some attention, its enormous personal and psychological costs have been mostly glossed over, particularly when it comes to the splitting of Bengal. The memory of this historical ordeal has been preserved in literary archives, and these archives are still being excavated.This book examines neglected narratives of the Partition of India in 1947 to study the traces left by this foundational trauma on the national- and regional-cultural imaginaries in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. To arrive at a more complex understanding of how Partition experiences of violence, migration, and displacement shaped postcolonial societies and subjectivities in South Asia, the author analyses, through novels and short stories, multiple cartographies of disorientation and anxiety in the post-Partition period. The book illuminates how contingencies of political geography cut across personal and collective histories, and how these intersections are variously marked and mediated by literature. Examining works composed in Bengali and other South Asian languages, this book seeks to broaden and complicate existing conceptions of what constitutes the Partition literary archive.A valuable addition to the growing field of Partition studies, this book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history, gender studies, and literature.
Indic fiction --- Women in literature --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Partition, Territorial, in literature --- Collective memory in literature --- History and criticism --- India --- History
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Indic literature --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- Political refugees in literature. --- Inde --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) --- History and criticism. --- 1947 (Partition) --- 20e siècle --- India --- History --- Influence. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) --- 20e siècle
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The Partition of India in 1947 marked the birth of two modern nation-states and the end of British colonialism in South Asia. The move towards the 'two nation solution' was accompanied by an unprecedented mass migration (over twelve million people) to and from areas that would become India and Pakistan. Diverse representations of the violence that accompanied this migration (including the abduction and sexual assault of over 75,000 women) can be found in fictional, historical, autobiographical, and recent scholarly works. Unsettling Partition examines short stories, novels, testimonies, and historiography that represent women's experiences of the Partition. Counter to the move for 'recovery' that informs some historical research on testimony and fictional representations of women's Partition experiences, Jill Didur argues for an attentiveness to the literary qualities of women's narratives that interrogate and unsettle monolithic accounts of the period. Rather than attempt to seek out a 'hidden history' of this time, Didur examines how the literariness of Partition narratives undermines this possibility. Unsettling Partitions reinterprets the silences found in women's accounts of sectarian violence that accompanied Partition (sexual assault, abduction, displacement from their families) as a sign of their inability to find a language to articulate their experience without invoking metaphors of purity and pollution. Didur argues that these silences and ambiguities in women's stories should not be resolved, accounted for, translated, or recovered but understood as a critique of the project of patriarchal modernity.
Indic fiction --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Violence in literature. --- Nationalism in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- History and criticism. --- India --- History --- Roman indien (de l'Inde) de langue anglaise --- Littérature indienne (de l'Inde) de langue anglais --- Inde --- Démembrement des nations --- Identité sexuelle --- Violence --- Nationalisme --- Femmes --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- 1947 (Partition) --- Dans la littérature
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This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.
Collective memory --- Partition, Territorial --- Nationalism --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- Bengali fiction --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Divided states --- Partitioned states --- States, Divided --- States, Partitioned --- Territorial partition --- Administrative and political divisions --- Dismemberment of nations --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- Social aspects --- Historiography. --- History and criticism. --- Bengal (India) --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- History --- In literature.
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Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its history: the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates the manifold valences of 'mimesis' as aesthetic representation, as the constitution of a community of witnesses, and as the mimetic relationality that underlies the encounter between India and Pakistan. The particular performances considered here range from Wagah border ceremonies, to the partition theatre of Asghar Wajahat, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, and the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics.
Performing arts --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Indic drama --- Nationalism in literature. --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- Partition, Territorial, in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures, Indic. --- Nationalism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- East Indian motion pictures --- Indic motion pictures --- Motion pictures, East Indian --- Foreign films --- Indic literature --- History and criticism. --- India --- Pakistan --- Dominion of Pakistan --- Bākistān --- Islamic Republic of Pakistan --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan --- Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan --- Pākistāna --- پاکِستان --- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān --- باكستان --- Paquistan --- Пакістан --- Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан --- Пакистан --- Ислямска република Пакистан --- Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan --- Islamische Republik Pakistan --- Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah --- Pakistani Islamivabariik --- Πακιστάν --- Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν --- Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan --- Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan --- State of Pakistan --- Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān --- パキスタン --- Pakisutan --- West Pakistan (Pakistan) --- History --- Influence. --- In literature. --- In motion pictures.
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En este libro la autora examina cómo el año de 1947 se convierte conceptualmente, en el momento de arribo de la nueva república de la India, en el fin de una historia anterior, para de allí construir una historia común. Para lograr su cometido, Laura Carballido Coria plantea dos cuerpos de textos: el primero, constituido por los textos históricos que se produjeron durante el periodo que va de 1900 a 1947; en el segundo, busca dar respuesta a las preguntas de cómo se presenta la nación en la alta esfera de la política, la tendencia revisionista de la historia política, la historia desde abajo y la historia de género.
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